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Anderson: Pietersen's allegations are 'sad'
England fast bowler James Anderson has reacted with dismay to the Kevin Pietersen book saga, saying the allegations of bullying and an unhappy dressing room are 'sad' and that he didn't think of it that way.
Pietersen's assertions that players like Anderson and Matt Prior were bullies towards other not in their little clique have upset a number of players, including Graeme Swann, who called it all 'codswallop' and 'fiction'.
Anderson was frustrated by the dominance of the story this week, and felt the team was being overshadowed, and that their achievements over the years were not given enough credit in KP's book.
Anderson said: "We've got more important things to worry about than someone's book. The issues that have been brought up are sad really.
"The dressing room for the seven or eight years we were winning and successful was fantastic. You don't achieve what we did during that period without all the guys pulling in the same direction.
"I can't get my head round it. He seems like he has not enjoyed it for any of the time he was there, but we all enjoyed it."
Anderson also defended then-coach Andy Flower, who KP accused of being too strict, and lamented that the book's 'revelations' would cast a pall over the side's achievements during that time.
He said: "It's overshadowed what we achieved. We had a successful time under coach Andy Flower. We won three Ashes series, got to world No. 1 and won in India for the first time in 20-odd years – Andy was the driving force behind that.
"That period of time as an England cricketer was the highlight of my career so far, and I'm sure I speak for the other lads when I say it was probably the highlight of their career so far too.
"Sitting on the outfield at Sydney, having won 3-1 in 2010-11, sharing a drink, chatting through our favourite moments of that particular tour will stick with me for many years to come. I'm sure that many of the other lads will feel the same.
"Hopefully what has come out won't overshadow what we did achieve and what was not just a successful period but a really enjoyable one too."
Anderson did have some sympathy for Pietersen, saying the batsman wasn't given the chance to say what he wanted to people's faces, as he was sacked before he could.
The paceman said: "He never got a chance to stand up for himself in the dressing room because the opportunity to be in the dressing room was taken away from him by the powers that be. He is now venting his frustration through a book."


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The purpose why we are hosting this LAN party goes hand in hand with the purpose of the website gamers.com.mt, that is we want to bring the gaming community together to grow socially and to always improve the qualities and skills of local gamers. Hosting this LAN party is another part of our efforts to give gamers the opportunity to compete, demonstrate their skills and win in their favourites games. We are hoping that this LAN party serves as a showcase of our local talent, to bring forth new emerging champions and promote the idea that gaming is not just a hobby but a full on sport! We also think that such an event is a perfect moment to introduce gamers to new games that are being played globally on a competitive level. GamersLAN will not be your usual LAN party; the gaming world has evolved and so must LAN parties. This is going to be the first LAN party that includes console tournaments in it. We have setup an entire gaming arena dedicated to PS3; with 10 LCD TVs, 10 PS3 and 64 gamer spots we are going to host the largest ever FIFA and Tekken tournaments. Last but not least GamersLAN will have the best prizes ever seen in any LAN party. We believe that there is no greater reward than a cash prize. GamersLAN will be rewarding the winners with over 2500 euros in cash. So what are you waiting for? Get your tickets now, this is gonna be a LAN party not to be missed!


There's an interesting mainland area to explore on Route 1, near the Linden Butterfly House in Clearwing. Wrong Way Cafe in Sabre and Wrong Way Books next door are mostly the creation of Thea Donovan, who has returned to Second Life.
My first three photos are of the book store. It's evident that Thea Donovan is a writer; there are at least a couple of well written info notecards that will tell you all you might wish to know. If you need to get in touch with Ms Donovan, there's a pink mailbox by the door of the bookstore where you can drop a notecard.
There are several books for sale and one offer on the marketplace, Erasing Eleanor, an art object book of redacted text about the secret love affair of Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok.
The red building seen outside the window is a gacha yard sale. It seems when Ms Donovan returned to Second Life she discovered the world of gachas.
You can read about that and more background in her blog which she's been posting to infrequently. In addition to the book shop, gacha collectibles and small dwelling (with open doors) is The Wrong Way Cafe and Dead End Theater.
"The cafe ran from September 2005 to September 2006 and became a regular venue for poetry readings from diverse members of our virtual community. As of October 2015, its founder Thea Donovan has returned to Second Life and resurrected the cafe to once again provide a venue for creative expression." There are open mics scheduled for Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. SLT and it's available for events. There's a hangout/meeting area upstairs.
Thea also has a Visual Poetry installation in one of the trailers at The Colony, Artists Riverfront in Deimos.
Besides the Linden Butterfly House in the area, someone has part of an installation by Bryn Oh on the other side of Wrong Way. Across the road is an art gallery, Northmans' Tourist Trap Roadside Art Shop, Clearwing. This is an overview of Wrong Way Books and Cafe.
I filmed this at the installation by 9Volt Borkotron, the most recent contributor to VeGeTaL PLanet. VeGeTal PLaNet, created and owned by the French SL artist Vroum Short, has been back for a few months after a hiatus of several years.
Probably the one of the subconscious sharing of our dreams." — from the artist bio notecard. I found the sim this past weekend when I was teleported in and became enchanted by Borkotron's installation. Besides Vroum Short and 9Volt Borkotron, there's an exhibition of real life paintings by FaFNer Hofmann at VeGeTaL PLaNeT. Hofmann is a French artist; some of the paintings are shown in the photo above. There are several areas that can be reached by teleporter, including a games area. Seating is available throughout the sim. You can pick up a bubble to float around in on one level, just add to wear. The ceiling looks like water; the walls and floors change color. What looks like a wall often leads into another gallery. There's a level that has a beautiful landscape. The Vroum Short Gallery has art groupings in many areas. Much of it is animated. Elie Maurice Photographie.
Other artists include Loup Erin and Ananga Resident. Animated art by Vroum Short.
You can find many videos on YouTube and Vimeo about VeGeTal PLaNeT. Animated art by Mitou Waco At VeGeTaL PLaNeT.
Obviously it will take several visits to see everything. You can use the teleporters to explore. The art is available for purchase and there are some great gifts too.
I'd like to thank Izida Hax for help with clarifying information along with Vroum Short for the kind welcome.


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To determine whether the costs reported by HTA of New York, Inc. (HTA) on its Consolidated Fiscal Report (CFR) were properly calculated, adequately documented, and allowable under the State Education Department's (SED) guidelines, including the Reimbursable Cost Manual (RCM). Our audit covered the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014.
HTA is an SED-approved, for-profit special education provider located in Westchester County, New York. HTA provides preschool special education services to children with disabilities between the ages of three and five years. HTA is reimbursed for preschool special education services through rates set by SED. The reimbursement rates are based on financial information, including costs, that HTA reports to SED on its annual CFR. To be eligible for reimbursement, reported costs must comply with the RCM requirements. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2014, HTA reported about $2.7 million in reimbursable costs on its CFR for one rate-based preschool special education program: Preschool Special Education Itinerant Teacher (SEIT) services.
$6,745 in personal service costs, which consisted of $4,065 in unsupported staff time, $1,546 in employee compensation that was reported as more than one full-time equivalent on the CFR, and $1,134 in other non-reimbursable costs.
Review the disallowances identified by our audit and, if warranted, make the necessary adjustments to the costs reported on HTA's CFR and to HTA's tuition reimbursement rates.
Remind HTA officials of the pertinent SED guidelines that relate to the deficiencies we identified.


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'Birds of Prey' Has Worst Opening Weekend in the History of the DC Extended Universe
Despite strong reviews from critics, Birds of Prey had a disappointing opening weekend at the box office. The film grossed an estimated $33.2 million in its first three days of release, which is the worst opening for any DC Extended Universe to date. The previous low was Shazam's $53.5 million — which means Birds of Prey didn't even come within $20 million of it. The film also opened with almost exactly $100 million less for its first weekend than Suicide Squad, the film that it was spun off from. There's a chance Birds of Prey winds up becoming the first DCEU movie to gross less than $100 million in the United States.
There might be several reasons the film struggled at the box office. For one thing, while Suicide Squad made a ton of money, it was not popular, and the fact that Birds of Prey looked a lot like it might not have been a selling point for potential audiences — particularly potential audiences that just saw a much darker and bleaker side of DC with Joker. Suicide Squad also had other bankable stars — notably Will Smith, Jared Leto, and Viola Davis, among quite a few others — while Birds of Prey was really sold entirely on the presence of Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. And while Birds of Prey's R-rating and surprisingly graphic violence might have endeared it to people who did see the film, it also might have kept away Harley Quinn's younger teen fans.
Here was the full box office top five for the weekend:
Birds of Prey - $33.2 million
Bad Boys For Life - $12 million
1917 - $9 million
Dolittle - $6.6 million
Jumanji The Next Level - $5.5 million
It will be interesting to see how this opening affects the future of the DCEU. Warner Bros has Wonder Woman 1984 later this year, and they're still making another Suicide Squad with James Gunn, but the enormous success of Joker — a film set totally apart from the rest of Warner's superhero movies — might convince them to eventually abandoned their shared cinematic universe and instead make one-offs that appeal to a more adult fanbase. Given the box office results of Joker versus Birds of Prey you could hardly blame them for doing that.
Every DC Comics Movie Ranked From Worst to Best:
Source: 'Birds of Prey' Has Worst Opening Weekend in the History of the DC Extended Universe
Filed Under: Birds of Prey, commerce, DC Comics, Margot Robbie

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Johannes (Jan) Olav Smit (geboren als Hendrik Johannes Smit) (Deventer, 19 februari 1883 – Rome, 22 juni 1972) was een Nederlands geestelijke en bisschop van de Katholieke Kerk.

Smit werd op 15 augustus 1906 tot priester gewijd. Hij studeerde vervolgens enkele jaren aan het Gregorianum, waar hij promoveerde in de Bijbelwetenschappen. Hierna werkte hij als priester in Nederland. In 1913 werd hij benoemd tot hoogleraar aan het groot-seminarie Rijsenburg.

Op 11 april 1922 benoemde paus Pius XI Smit tot titulair bisschop van Paralus en tot apostolisch vicaris in Noorwegen. Hier voegde hij de naam Olav, naar de Noorse patroonheilige Olaf aan zijn voornaam toe. Zijn tijd in Noorwegen behoorde niet tot de gelukkigste jaren van zijn leven. Hij kwam in aanvaring met de zusters van het enige katholieke ziekenhuis van Kristiania, omdat zij weigerden een kleine belasting aan het vicariaat af te dragen. De bisschop was bovendien enthousiast in het overplaatsen van priesters, die dat weinig op prijs leken te stellen. Hij zette zich krachtig in voor de Noorse missie. Zo verzorgde hij een tijdschrift, Uit het land van St. Olav, waarmee hij hoopte Nederlandse donoren te werven. Ook richtte Smit in 1924 in Bussum het Sint Olavhuis in, waar meisjes konden intreden, die deel wilden uitmaken van een Noorse missiecongregatie. Om nooit opgehelderde redenen vertrok Smit in 1928, zonder afscheid te nemen van zijn vicariaat, of van de Noorse koning, uit Noorwegen om zich in Rome te vestigen. Hier werd Smit kanunnik van de Sint-Pietersbasiliek.

Op 24 november 1929 werd er een aanslag op hem gepleegd door een Zweedse actrice, genaamd Gudrun Margerita Ramstad, (la bionda Norvegese). De vrouw richtte een pistool op hem, maar dat werd haar – voor het kon afgaan – uit handen geslagen door een andere kanunnik. In de roddelpers werd geopperd dat het hier ging om een vrouw met wie Smit in zijn Noorse tijd een verhouding had gehad. Bewijzen hiervoor zijn nooit geleverd en het is onwaarschijnlijk dat het Vaticaan deze berichten serieus genomen heeft want hij bleef tot zijn dood kanunnik. Hij stond hoog in aanzien bij paus Pius XII (over wie Smit een biografie schreef) en paus Johannes XXIII benoemde hem tot bisschop-troonassistent. Onderwijl was hij al die tijd een onvermoeibaar gastheer voor Nederlandse pelgrims in Rome.

Jan Olav Smit werd begraven op Campo Santo dei Teutonici e dei Fiamminghi in Vaticaanstad.

Werk
Naast talloze wetenschappelijke publicaties, schreef Smit de volgende boeken voor een breder publiek:
Pastor Angelicus. Paus Pius XII, J.J. Romen & Zonen, 1949
(met R.R. Post) Naar Rome. Geïllustreerd handboek voor reizigers naar Rome 6e dr. Utrecht 1958

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Bishop Johannes Olav Smit op Catholic Hierarchy
Lemma Smit, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland

Referenties

Nederlands titulair bisschop
Bisschop van Oslo
20e-eeuws bisschop

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Don't forget, men, this Saturday morning (9:00 AM) we will have a Men's breakfast at the church. Join us for good food, good fellowship, and good time in the Word.
Remember to join us for our fellowship meal this week. The main dish will be covered by the Presbytery Youth Retreat, but we need Salad, salad, and more salad. Also, bring bread, dessert, drinks. It will be a full house, but you won't want to miss it!
Next Saturday there will be a men's breakfast and study at the church at 9AM. If you are interested in putting together the food list, or doing the devotional, talk to Pastor Stefan.
You can now find the bulletin for tomorrow on the website and attached to this e-mail. We look forward to worshipping with you tomorrow!


Although stress and lifestyle can make ulcers worse, the main cause is a tiny, spiral-shaped bacteria called Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). These bacteria penetrate your stomach's protective lining, making it more susceptible to damage from digestive acids. They also cause your stomach to produce more acid, contributing even more to the development of a painful ulcer.
Your doctor can do a simple blood test to see if you are infected with H. pylori. If you are, he'll probably prescribe antibiotics to kill the bacteria, and he might recommend the following lifestyle changes.
Stop smoking. Cigarette smoking increases your risk of developing an ulcer. It also makes existing ulcers heal more slowly and raises the chances that your ulcers will return after they've finally healed.
Can the coffee. Many beverages and foods that contain caffeine, like coffee, tea, and colas, may cause your stomach to produce more acid than usual, making your ulcer pain worse.
Limit stress. Although stress is no longer considered the major cause of ulcers, many people with ulcers say that emotional stress increases the pain. Physical stress, such as surgery or a serious injury, may trigger the formation of ulcers.
Don't overdo NSAIDs. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can undermine your stomach's natural protection. Aspirin and ibuprofen are common NSAIDs taken for arthritis, headaches, or just minor aches and pains. If they are causing you stomach pain, ask your doctor about switching to another type of pain reliever.


I won't bore you with the details of my camera woes (the best laid plans).
and it was only a few dollars more.
Now comes the hard part. I need camera lessons – self taught of course!
Lately we've been having simply pawgeous weather – blue skies, mild temperatures – and that gave me an idea: read the camera manual and then go outside!
THE COOL, CRISP AIR PRODUCES SMELLS THAT DOGS SEEM TO LOVE SNIFFING.
John Kelly / The Washington Post – John Kelly's dog Charlie, loves autumn because of the large amount of leaves to sniff and play in, as seen here outside his house on October 27th.
"Autumn also gives Charlie a whole new world to smell. He is especially enamored of the growing piles of leaves that start appearing curbside. He sniffs them like a connoisseur.Autumn may be my dog Charlie's favorite season. Finally, his thick, black coat — which had seemed so oppressive during the endless Washington summer — fits the weather perfectly.
So after reading Kelly's article I thought the fall foliage would make for some fun "shooting practice" with the camera. And I could observe The Boys behavior in the leaves.
Why is his head up? Was it the breeze from the wind? The warmth from the sun? Is he trying to catch a leaf? Who knows!
Now that's a lot of leaves!
They both seem to love this Autumn season.
PS: I'm still reading the manual.
PSS: We always get our poop too!
Remember "Election Day" is Tuesday, November 5th, exercise your Constitutional right and vote!


If you like MMA, why not try a little Daily Fantasy to make even better.
Mixed martial arts, especially through the UFC, have become an extremely popular sport to watch. It only makes sense that fantasy leagues are popping up, and this include daily fantasy leagues, too. If you are an MMA fan, and you love fantasy sports, daily fantasy MMA is worth checking out. It's a lot of fun, and it makes fight nights much more enjoyable.
Unlike other daily fantasy sports, MMA is broken down match by match. The average price per fighter is $10,000 at DraftKings, and you need to select 5 different fighters. With a salary cap of $50,000, you can select 5 average fighters. The problem with this is that the favorite is always more than $10,000, and the underdog is always less. If you pick the five biggest favorites, you will go up over your cap, and this forces you to pick the underdogs that are most likely to perform well. It is a tough balancing act, but when done correctly, you can end up winning some money. Having a good strategy to go behind the selection process will help you to make a better roster and increase your chances of finishing in the money.
Here are a few tips to help you develop a winning strategy.
1.) Look at each fight before choosing your fighters You will see that each fight is broken down with a favorite and an underdog. The favorite will be more expensive, and the underdog will be cheap. Favorites are a favorite for a reason, but that doesn't mean that they will win. If you can find the dogs that have the best chance of an upset, then you will find the fighters that are cheap, yet have a good chance of scoring a lot of points. By looking at each fight before you start choosing, you have a better chance of finding these fights and capitalizing on them.
2.) Know what to expect per fighter Some fighters are better at producing points than others. You get points for early round wins, but there are points for other things to, like takedowns. A fighter that is technically sound will score more points over the long run than a brute that wins by decision. Wins are great, but you want a fighter that will score a lot of points per win. By observing fights, taking notes, and then applying them to your roster, you stand a better chance of knowing who will score the most points.
3.) Take a risk on new fighters Once in a while, you will see that fighters new to the UFC are up for your roster. That's a score for you, because these new fighters are often cheap, but that doesn't meant that they don't have experience. A lot of fighters come over from different leagues, like Strikeforce, and have experience. They might not have any fantasy points yet, but if you know their background and style, you can make some guesses. This often allows you to grab good talent for very cheap. When you do this, you can get a dog, but be confident that you are getting a player that others will pass by on, just because his info doesn't show up in the preview box. They are still great fighters, just new to the league.
4.) Don't feel forced to use all of your salary In other sports, leaving salary money on the table is a losing proposition. Your salary has the potential to buy you points, and unused salary is handing the championship over to someone else. Not in daily fantasy MMA. Here, because each value is determined in pairs, you can find great value in a lot of cheap fighters. You might find you draft two favorites and three dogs, and have $800 left in salary. That's okay. Your job isn't to spend everything, it's to score points. If you don't need every dollar to accomplish this, don't worry about it. Just focus on points, and use the money as a tool to get them.
5.) Be more than a fan Fans of MMA are fine, but this alone will not win you a fantasy title. T win, you need to be able to not draft your favorite fighter if they aren't the right choice. You need to be a student of the game so that you can analyze fights, be able to predict outcomes with accuracy, and have the insight to know when great fighters will be up against even better fighters that just haven't stepped up their game yet. These are not easy things to do, and the casual fan will never be able to. Be more than a fan; be a top fantasy manager.
These tips are just a beginning. There is a lot to learn about this game, and although the way that it's structured seems quite simple, little things will help you to get better. For one, you should be able to start determining the relationship between salary and point value. Getting 65 points from a fighter you spend $9,800 on is not the same as getting 95 points from a fighter that you spend $11,200 on. Both are great numbers, but even though the more expensive fighter costs more, he is also of a greater value because he is contributing a higher level of value to your roster. This might seem like difficult math to perform, but after watching tournament outcomes for a while, you will see that spending a little more to earn more points is often worth it. It can take some time to figure out exact numbers, but if fantasy sports were easy, there'd be no point in playing for money. It's the amount of skill that you need that makes winning cash so worthwhile. Our goal is to help you get to that level a lot faster than if you were learning on your own. Put in the time and the effort, and you will soon be a profitable daily fantasy MMA player.


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Vetter starts operations at Ravensburg Vetter West
by Mel J. Yeates	| Email the author
RAVENSBURG, Germany—Vetter, a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for development, aseptic filling and final packaging of injectables, has announced that it has begun operations in its expanded Visual Inspection and Logistics Center located in Ravensburg. The enlargement, in which the company invested approximately €100 million ($107 million), bundles capacity for final product inspection and logistics in one site.
According to Vetter Managing Director Thomas Otto, the decision to move from the Holbeinstrasse site to the new Ravensburg Vetter West was "based on the target in mind to establish a single central warehouse and logistics services. In addition, this means we can also bundle the capacity for final product inspection in one cutting-edge site. Recently, Vetter finalized the second construction stage of the site. The groundbreaking for this expansion took place back in 2014. The initial site (the first construction stage) was put into operation in 2012."
By finalizing the second construction stage of the site that was initially put into operation five years ago, the CDMO now offers more than double the capacity for state-of-the-art quality control, cold-storage and room-temperature storage. Given the increasing industry-specific requirements emanating from customer and regulatory side, the company now provides even more efficient and flexible supply chain processes.
The expanded center, referred to as Ravensburg Vetter West, is located on approximately 50,000 square meters (538,000 square feet) of floor space and offers a 35,000-pallet warehouse capacity for storing pharmaceuticals in refrigeration or room-temperature conditions. The capacities for chest freezers, incubation chambers and constant climate chambers have also been increased, as have the visual inspection capacities of filled units which can be realized in either manual or automatic mode. This allows Vetter to react with greater flexibility to individual market and customer needs.
The center also contains a support materials warehouse with corresponding safety installations as well as a new packaging-check laboratory and the company's central archive. Additionally, the number of office workspaces were increased. By the end of 2017, the CDMO will relinquish its existing Holbeinstrasse site for visual inspection and logistics. Its employees and departments will gradually be relocated to Ravensburg Vetter West, resulting in a working staff of approximately 800 employees.
"Quality, reliable delivery and efficient logistics play an increasingly important role in the highly competitive drug market. Vetter supports many of the world's key drug manufacturers in the development and manufacturing of their products. The recent enlargement bundles capacity for final product inspection and logistics in one cutting-edge site. Concentrating our supply chain processes in one site enables bundled resources for even more efficient and highly secured logistic and quality control procedures," Otto tells DDNews. "The enlargement also creates a couple of benefits, including the ability to offer more than double the capacity for state-of-the-art quality control, cold-storage and room-temperature storage. Furthermore, given the increasing industry- specific requirements emanating from customer and regulatory sides, Vetter can now provide even more efficient and flexible supply chain processes."
2016 was again a successful year for Vetter. The demand of international customers in the areas of clinical development, commercial production and final packaging continued to increase. The CDMO supported its customers with drug product manufacturing, including five of the world's top 10 biologics. Overall, the number of Vetter employees operating in its production sites and sales subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Asia increased from 3,600 employees to approximately 4,100.
In addition to opening Ravensburg Vetter West, Vetter is also busy constructing a new building on the same site. Otto says, "The construction of a new production building is taking place at Vetter's existing Ravensburg Schuetzenstrasse site. Scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2018, the building is planned to begin operations in early 2019. It is expected to cost approximately €70 million (about $75 million)."
As we had noted previously in DDNews, when finished, the seven-story Ravensburg Schuetzenstrasse building will cover a total of 8,000 square meters (86,000 square feet) and include a cleanroom with supportive media systems. In addition, it will contain the site's central material preparation, office space for the production staff and a staff canteen with roof garden.
"We are continuously monitoring and reacting to a changing marketplace and are pleased that we are in the position to be able to make these strategic investments to further develop our sites and meet these challenges," Vetter Managing Director Peter Soelkner told DDNews. "Individually and collectively, they will help us keep pace with the market and allow us to continue to build a successful future for Vetter and our customers."
The applied technology of the cleanroom will be "dedicated to the filling of bulk syringes and designed to be compatible for the filling of sensitive drugs such as biologics and opthalmics," Otto explains, adding that syringes prepared in the bulk process offer a number of customization options that are tailored to substance and primary packaging material components. They offer customizable low silicone levels and, thus, process flexibility.
Another key technological aspect of the cleanroom will be the implementation of an improved restricted access barrier system (RABS) concept to combine the advantages of isolator and RABS technology. For decades, Vetter has relied on RABS as one of the two distinct technologies available today for its aseptic filling processes, the other being isolators. RABS achieves the sterility assurance level required by regulatory authorities, and allows for rapid product change-over coupled with high safety. To better meet future industry trends in quality, safety and flexibility, a corporate project team has evolved this "improved RABS concept" by combining the advantages of isolator and RABS technology.
"The core of this innovative approach is a uniquely fast, by today's standards—a three-hour cycle and fully automated decontamination of the cleanroom using hydrogen peroxide," Otto says.


Dynamic stretching sounds very exciting, doesn't it? Even if it seems to be a bit of an oxymoron. We're familiar with stretching as a slow, careful activity, something to get you ready for the action—not an active thing itself.
But some experts suggest that dynamic stretching might be the best kind of stretching for a warm-up; save the bending, reaching and holding for your cool down, they say. So what is dynamic stretching, and why is it helpful?
First, the stretching you're most likely familiar with is called static stretching. It involves lengthening a joint or muscle by extending your body and holding it in place for 10 to 30 seconds, allowing the tissue to release on its own. Static stretches are best performed after a workout, when the body is already warm and loosened up. In fact, research at the University of Nevada has shown that static stretches may actually decrease your power and performance—definitely not the desired effect right before a workout!
Dynamic stretches are designed to take your body through the movements you'll perform in your exercises to follow. With each repetition, you take the joint or muscle through the series, extending a little further each time. Dynamic stretching helps bring blood flow to the area that you're going to use, oxygenating those muscles, and loosens any stiffness. It also increases your kinesthetic awareness—your sense of your body in space and your ability to navigate as you move.
The key to dynamic stretching is to control the movement. This is definitely not the time to be sloppy! The goal of stretching is to avoid injury, not create injury through the stretch itself. Don't exaggerate movements or engage in any explosive motion. Steady and sustained is the name of the game.
To engage in dynamic stretching, think about the activity that you're about to perform and consider what joints and muscles it employs. Let's use running as an example. Most obviously you're going to use your hamstrings and quadriceps, your calves and ankles. Rather than propping your heel up on a step and holding to stretch your hamstrings, then standing on one leg and grabbing your other ankle behind you to stretch your quadriceps, you might do some walking lunges. These will warm up all of your leg muscles while loosening your ankles, knees and hip flexors.
Perhaps you're planning to take a barre class. You know that the instructor is going to call for lots of leg lifts and engage your core. You can limber up in these areas by standing at the barre and doing some high kicks and leg swings, flexing and pointing your toes, then standing with your hands on your hips twisting from side to side to warm up your obliques.
If you practice yoga, you can perform a few sun salutations to reap the rewards of dynamic stretching. Many trainers also advise marrying dynamic stretching with a few minutes of light cardio such as jogging or brisk walking to further increase blood flow before a workout.
The key: to wake up the muscles and joints that you're about to exercise. If you've been sitting all day at a desk, you might be surprised at how knotted and inflexible you really are. Jumping into an activity cold can cause those tight spots to strain or tear. Take a few extra minutes before your next workout for some dynamic stretching and, as Taylor Swift so famously sings, shake it off!


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Tipping is a mug's game, if you overdo it.
Holiday tipping can cost you more than feeding your family for an entire week. But it doesn't have to.
One in four people shell out more than $250 on holiday tips, according to a survey from care-giving resource company Care.com — and for 11% of Americans, that total balloons up to more than $400. Nowadays, the majority of tippers say they are giving each person $20 to $60 on average.
1. Teachers. "Tipping teachers is a bad idea," says etiquette and relationship expert April Masini. "It creates a conflict for them in the classroom, and while it's fine to give them a gift card or little gift, money is a problem … you want to avoid any special attention and conflict of interest that your cash to a teacher may create." The exception: If the entire class decides to collect money and pool it for the teacher, she says. And don't give them chocolate (assume scores of other parents have already thought of that).
2. Doctors and nurses. You want good health care, so you tip your regular doctor, nurse or other healthcare professional over the holidays, right? Wrong, says Constance Hoffman, the owner of etiquette and professional skills firm Social and Business Graces, who notes that while a gift is appropriate, a tip is not. The same goes for a therapist or psychologist, says Pamela Eyring, the president of the Protocol School of Washington.
3. Takeout staff at a restaurant. Even if the same guy prepares your take-out order at your favorite restaurant all year, you needn't tip him come holiday time, says Hoffman. Instead, you can, but don't have to, tip him throughout the year — your change from the order of about $1 in the tip jay is fine, says Hoffman.
4. Mailman. Regular U.S. Postal Service mail carriers aren't allowed to get cash tips, gift cards or checks, so tipping them is a no-no. They also can't accept gifts valued at more than $20.
5. Hotel concierge. You tip them throughout the year, as you use them (about $5 to $10 or more, depending on the request, some experts say). But you don't need to also do it during the holidays, says Eyring. Same goes for the hotel sales manager, she adds.
6. Drycleaner. The dry-cleaner does not need a holiday tip, but a small gift, like a candle or a gift certificate to an inexpensive restaurant, for consistent and quality service is nice, Eyring adds.
7. Salesperson at a store you frequent. Eyring notes that many stores have policies against their sales people taking tips. Even if they don't, these people work on commission throughout the year and do not need a holiday tip, she says. A nice thank-you note will show your appreciation, she adds.
8. Financial advisors or accountants. In lieu of cash for the financial professionals in your life, "send a gift basket or bring in lunch to the office that can be shared by the staff," says Hoffman.
9. Grocery baggers and cashiers. Throughout the year, you'll tip a grocery bagger when she bags your groceries and carries them out to the car — typically $1 to $5 is fine — but you don't need then give them a holiday tip on top of this, says Eyring. The cashier doesn't need a tip either, she adds.


The expressive arts legacy passed on to the next generation is one of images–their life, language and meaning. Participants in this workshop will take part in an expressive arts therapy group supervision process, using art-making and images to help us understand our clients, their issues, the co-transference, deeper levels of existence and relationship, and the arts themselves. Woven into the supervision process will be expressive arts and Jungian psychology, both image-based approaches.
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Hotter, colder, more, less…and they say the science is settled?	July 19, 2009
Tags: climate change, climate change madness, global warming
Hotter, colder, more, less…and they say the science is settled?
By the blogowner, honestclimate, July 19, 2009
Thought I'd share the below articles from the last couple of weeks. Please bear in mind that the debate is over and the science is settled…
Sydney's climate to 'become like Brisbane's'
Via the ABC, July 6, 2009
The globe's tropical zone is expanding rapidly and by the end of the century, Sydney's climate will be more like Brisbane's is today, Australian experts say.
Australia: Record cold hits the tropics
Via Globalfreeze, July 18, 2009
Clermont in the Central Highlands plummeted to minus three degrees on Saturday morning, 10 degrees below their July average and the towns coldest night on record. Sub zero temperatures even spread as far north as Mt Isa, their coldest night in seven years. Even mild coastal areas have dropped to single figures over the past few nights with Rockhampton recording a minimum of just three on Saturday morning, colder than any night in central Sydney for more than 20 years.
Wow, the tropics colder than Sydney? I guess we could just blame climate change for the cold, like the BBC does in the article below.
Children die in harsh Peru winter
Via the BBC, July 12, 2009
Almost 250 children under the age of five have died in a wave of intensely cold weather in Peru.
Children die from pneumonia and other respiratory infections every year during the winter months particularly in Peru's southern Andes.
But this year freezing temperatures arrived almost three months earlier than usual.
Experts blame climate change for the early arrival of intense cold which began in March.
More, less, whatever
Via Andrew Bolt, July 18, 2009
Global warming is intensifying the monsoon in Central India, according to a study that warns of increasing risk from heavier rains during the season.
Each year, millions of farmers in India hope and pray for the right kind of monsoon rains to help grow their crops. But it's believed climate change is delaying the onset of the monsoon – threatening crops and pushing up the prices of basic foods. .
Warming turns out nice
It has been assumed that global warming would cause an expansion of the world's deserts, but now some scientists are predicting a contrary scenario in which water and life slowly reclaim these arid places….
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned recently that rising global temperatures could cut West African agricultural production by up to 50% by the year 2020. But satellite images from the last 15 years do seem to show a recovery of vegetation in the Southern Sahara…
1.	Klem - July 19, 2009
I love it. The more blogs I read about climate change the more skepticism I see. Public support has turnedregarding climate change so there is very little public supportfor Cap&trade. Can we end this cap&tax idea now?
2.	Magnus - July 21, 2009
We may already be beyond the 4 degrees C temperature level since pre-industrial times! 4 degrees!!!
This is proved and showed in any recinstruction. E g Schwartz and Randall:
Remember: The global temperature must not increas to above 2 degrees C above pre-industrial level. But it already has increased at least 4 degrees C above that level, I think! There's nothing we an do than to stop the society and announce catastrophe conditions!
Correct me if I'm wrong…


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What is the International Christian Church (ICC), and what do they believe?
The International Christian Church (ICC) is a religious group that practices a strict, manipulative form of "discipleship" and seeks to control its membership to an ungodly extent, and many people have been hurt emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually as a result. Because of the ICC's oppressive practices, errant view of salvation, and other false doctrines, we caution against becoming involved in the International Christian Church.
The International Christian Church was founded in 2006 by Kip McKean, who had earlier been instrumental in the Boston Movement and became a founder of the International Churches of Christ, another manipulative religious group. When McKean was forced to leave the ICOC, he moved from Boston to Portland and started up the ICC, duplicating his aberrant doctrines in the new organization.
The International Christian Church also goes by the moniker of the Sold-Out Discipling Movement. In many places, the name of the city where the congregation meets is included in the church name: City of Angels International Christian Church and Portland International Christian Church, for example. The organization operates its own college, the International College of Christian Ministry.
The International Christian Church has a number of problems. One is their view of baptism, which they consider a requirement for salvation. According to the ICC, only "disciples" can be baptized. To become a "disciple," one must be sufficiently broken over sin, living a Christian life as defined by the church, and agreeing with the church's interpretation of Scripture. Further, the ICC promotes a cult-like exclusivity: the only "valid" baptism is one administered by an ICC leader who agrees that baptism confers salvation. The International Christian Church thus views anyone outside their group as unsaved. Those who attend a different church are part of a sinful organization and not part of the "true church."
The International Christian Church also places a strong emphasis on what they call "discipleship." The techniques of heavy shepherding are employed: ex-members complain of legalism, heavy-handedness, lack of grace, lack of forgiveness, forced uniformity, verbal coercion, browbeating, and other manipulative tactics. Attendance at all church services is mandatory, as is obedience to church leaders' commands. Bringing a visitor every week is expected. Evangelism is stressed to the point of competition—who can tally the most baptisms?
The tactics and doctrines of the International Christian Church result in fear, guilt, and anxiety in the membership. But their teaching that their church is the only road to salvation, coupled with playing on the emotions and constantly berating over sin, keeps the membership in line. In some cases, members are blackmailed into submission through the threat of releasing private information gleaned during "discipleship" sessions.
As with most spiritually dangerous groups, the International Christian Church mixes some good doctrine with the bad. But the fact that they are correct on some points of doctrine does not mitigate their teaching of salvation by works (i.e., baptismal regeneration), their exclusivity, their rejection of eternal security, or their legalism.
If you have been negatively affected by the International Christian Church or another manipulative group claiming to be Christian, we encourage you to seek healing. Although Jesus' name may have been used to hurt you, Jesus Himself said, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light" (Matthew 11:30). God is able to heal those who have been spiritually abused.
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John was born on November 14, 1952 and passed away on Tuesday, September 12, 2017.
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• The first is that communities are able to absorb poverty that is relatively low and not spatially concentrated. Suburban municipalities, schools, and voluntary associations have enough capacity to cope with 11 percent poverty. It is in the city neighborhoods with poverty rates of 30 percent or higher that systems break down.
• The second is that this suburban poverty, which is led by immigrants, is somehow different. Not only do immigrant groups rely on networks of extended family, but also they do not experience as much racial discrimination as have the urban poor, particularly African Americans, historically.
• Another possibility is that accessibility – to jobs, services, and amenities – is not the type of challenge in suburbs that it is portrayed to be. Although transit services are inadequate, many low-income households rely on cars to manage their complex suburban lives. For the low-income, the issue is not how to get to social services once a month, but whether you can borrow a car from family every day.
• A fourth explanation is that many suburbs continue to exclude low-income households, whether through zoning or discouraging the construction of affordable housing.
• Or, these findings could just be an artifact of the analytic approach. The Brookings research designates almost all places not named in the Census official metropolitan area name as suburbs – meaning that cities like Gary, Indiana are combined with Gaithersburg, Maryland. This turns suburban poverty into a fuzzy concept.
We continue to view and analyze cities and suburbs as separate constructs, even though sociological research since Herbert Gans' The Levittowners has shown that people in cities and suburbs are both, well, people, with similar values and needs. So perhaps what we need is a new pro-people strategy, not another anti-poverty strategy.


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Labyrinth of Searching for the Inner Self
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It's very simple. Just come to us, work for a while with love, one or two hours, and stay with us as much as your heart desires. You will not just walk and stay in the area of harmony, but also you will have a great opportunity to weed out all your problems, stress and tension out of your mind. And you will do it by trembling, raving or anything else. When you arrive, we will explain how this is all about and how things are going when you are doing physical work with thought and love.
Also you can drink delicious coffee, special tea of labirinth in the café( snacks and drinks are not included in the offer).
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The purpose of this labyrinth is working with ourselves, searching for the inner "ME", giving replies to questions, solving problems, finding peace and fulfilling dreams. One, however, should never forget that the dreams come true only when we use the present tense and, what's even better, thank for it in advance. If you give your thanks for the things you wish to have (for perfect relationships, a dream job, remarkable health, a living without lacking anything) before you are in possession of them... Read more
The length of the labyrinth is 600 m.
It harmonizes relationships between lovers, family members, brothers, sisters, friends, cousins and team members. It has two entrances leading to the centre and a single common exit. If two people walk the labyrinth, one walks the first path and another takes the second one. If it is a family, friends or a group of people, a part of them walks the first path and the rest people the second path. If you don't have a beloved or you have not found him or her yet, then you can walk alone the path and imagine your beloved walking another path, or ask GOD to send someone into your life with whom you will want to live your entire life. Read more
The length of the labyrinth is 54 m.
The labyrinth has eight circles, a center and four meditation sites in its corners. Number eight is the symbol of infinity, which shows us that we never have to restrain ourselves anywhere.
We can reach as far as our thoughts go. When we suppress ourselves, we lose self-confidence and the belief that we can do so much, that we have so many talents and that everything we have ever dreamt about can become reality merely... Read more
The length of the labyrinth is 1700 m.
This is a figure of eight shaped labyrinth with the significance of infinity, the balance and harmony of all energies. It is the labyrinth that balances the left and right brain hemispheres. The left hemisphere is responsible for the mind and the right – for intuition, so one must learn to follow both his own mind and heart. The labyrinth has two circles – male and female. Its path begins and ends in the centres of the feminine and masculine energy flows – in the intersecting points of two circles. Read more
Knowing the meaning of shapes, lines, objects and the importance of freedom of thought we give everything a sense. Our goal is not only to build a structure, but also to make it meaningful and functional. The first dome, as you can see, is covered with wood shingles so that it could serve as a tool to protect people from rain. The second dome is designed for kids to climb, train and swing. The third dome will gradually become covered with sweet green grapes which in time will entertain us with their taste and fill our bodies with important vitamins and nutrients. Grapes will also let us rest in the shade, when the sun becomes very hot. Read more
Circle, ring or sphere is not only versatile, but also one of the most perfect geometric shapes. Atoms, cells, seeds, planets and systems of stars are of this shape. In a circle all points are equidistant from the centre. The sphere symbolises unity, completeness, God and beginning. This is a symbol of constant movement and creativity. All peoples perceive this shape as a beginning and a whole.
On a two-dimensional plane a circle helps to represent the most difficult issues: the solar system, the nucleus of an atom, annual festivals and astrological maps. Human life is also rotating in a circle – in a cycle from birth to death. The circle is a symbol of protection. Read more
A geometric shape – the triangle – in different cultures symbolises various things, such as land fertility, marriage, wealth, flame, mountain, pyramid, the Holy Trinity or physical stability. An inverted triangle in oriental mandalas is the symbol of feminine energy, intuition, the spring of passive creation or earth. A triangle whose apex is directed upward symbolises masculine energy, the spring of active creation and celestial energy.
What is the meaning of the Merkaba? The Merkaba – rotating fields of light around our physical body. This word is composed of three words: Mer, Ka, Ba. Read more
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Boasting an enchanting fusion of island bliss and cultural wealth, Samos is an island for adventurers and bon vivants alike: sun, sea and countless sights provide ideal prerequisites for a multi-facetted and action-filled dream holiday.
Samos is located very near the Turkish mainland. The Greek island in the Aegean Sea, north of the Dodecanese islands, is the birthplace of mathematician Pythagoras. With a plethora of ancient architectural ruins on offer, it is a treasure trove for fans of Greek antiquity. Samos is home to Heraion, a significant antique sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Hera. The Hera Temple, of which sadly only few ruins remain, was one the largest temples of antiquity. Together with the town of Pythagorio, Heraion has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The tunnel of Eupalinos through Mount Kastro is one of the island's must-see landmarks. Built during the reign of Polycrates (538-522 BC), the purpose of the aqueduct was to supply the ancient capital of Samos (today's Pythagorio) with fresh water. Visitors apprehensive about entering a mountain may consider the demanding ascent to the top of Mount Kerkis instead: rising to 1434 metres, the highest mountain of the Aegean is known for its rich fauna and beautiful vistas. Kerkis houses the cave of Pythagoras and is where the philosopher and mathematician is said to have hidden from the tyrant Polycrates before immigrating to Italy. As the cave entrance is situated in a rock face several hundred metres up from the ground, a visit is not recommended if vertigo is an issue. By contrast, two very well-preserved chapels can be admired from the safety of the ground.
Sun worshippers looking for long, sandy beaches will search in vain on Samos. Instead, the island stuns with beguilingly beautiful natural coves and hot, dry weather from April to October. Bathers eager to swim near the port town of Samos can do so at the lovely cove of Agia Paraskevi. Energetic water sports enthusiasts, such as surfers, will love breaking the waves on Kokkari beach: the former fishing village is a popular holiday resort that attracts visitors with long pebble beaches and small bathing coves, and has many water sports opportunities on offer.
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Brandstein, Kendra
UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2011)
Smoking interferes with the recovery and healing process for hospitalized patients. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organizations (JCAHO) requires that hospitals offer smoking cessation assistance, which involves brief bedside counseling for patients of certain diagnoses. It is generally recognized that hospitalization creates a "teachable moment" for smoking cessation. In fact, most smokers quit smoking while hospitalized. However, most of them relapse soon after discharge. There is a need to develop intervention programs that can increase the long-term quit rate of these patients post discharge. The present study is a small randomized controlled trial. It compares the usual-care condition, where smokers received bedside counseling from respiratory therapists, to an enhanced treatment condition, which included provision of eight weeks of nicotine patches at discharge plus proactive telephone counseling from a quitline up to two months post discharge. Hospitalized smokers of all diagnoses were included in the study, except those hospitalized for psychiatric reasons and pregnant women. A total of 126 smokers were recruited into the study. The sample size was not powered to find a statistically significant result on the long-term quit rate, but it is large enough to provide a good estimate of effect size for the intervention. Study participants were evaluated at two and six months for their smoking status. At two months 78.0% of the sample was contacted. In an intent-to-treat analysis in which all those not contacted are assumed to be smokers, 26.6% in enhanced-treatment (ET) group and 6.5% in usual-care (UC) group had quit smoking for at least 30 days (OR=5.2, p<0.01). At six months, 57.9% were contacted. An intent-to-treat analysis found 9.4% in ET and 6.4% in UC had quit for at least 180 days (OR=1.5, p=0.74). This study found that an intervention that combined nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and telephone counseling had a significant effect, up to two months. There was substantial relapse between two and six months, but the odds ratio between the two conditions was still respectable. Future studies would include a larger sample size and would also investigate ways to reduce relapse rate in the long term
Exercises in Emergency Preparedness for Health Professionals in Community Clinics
Fowkes, Virginia
Blossom, H. John
Sandrock, Christian
Mitchell, Brenda
Health professionals in community settings are generally unprepared for disasters. From 2006 to 2008 the California Statewide Area Health Education Center (AHEC) program conducted 90 table top exercises in community practice sites in 18 counties. The exercises arranged and facilitated by AHEC trained local coordinators and trainers were designed to assist health professionals in developing and applying their practice site emergency plans using simulated events about pandemic influenza or other emergencies. Of the 1,496 multidisciplinary health professionals and staff participating in the exercises, 1,176 (79%) completed learner evaluation forms with 92–98% of participants rating the training experiences as good to excellent. A few reported helpful effects when applying their training to a real time local disaster. Assessments of the status of clinic emergency plans using 15 criteria were conducted at three intervals: when the exercises were scheduled, immediately before the exercises, and for one-third of sites, three months after the exercise. All sites made improvements in their emergency plans with some or all of the plan criteria. Of the sites having follow up, most (N = 23) were community health centers that made statistically significant changes in two-thirds of the plan criteria (P = .001–.046). Following the exercises, after action reports were completed for 88 sites and noted strengths, weaknesses, and plans for improvements in their emergency plans Most sites (72–90%) showed improvements in how to activate their plans, the roles of their staff, and how to participate in a coordinated response. Challenges in scheduling exercises included time constraints and lack of resources among busy health professionals. Technical assistance and considerations of clinic schedules mitigated these issues. The multidisciplinary table top exercises proved to be an effective means to develop or improve clinic emergency plans and enhance the dialogue and coordination among health professionals before an emergency happens.
Nicotine patches and quitline counseling to help hospitalized smokers stay quit: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Cummins, Sharon
Zhu, Shu-Hong
Gamst, Anthony
Kirby, Carrie
Klonoff-Cohen, Hillary
Chaplin, Edward
Morris, Timothy
Seymann, Gregory
UC San Diego Previously Published Works (2012)
AbstractBackgroundHospitalized smokers often quit smoking, voluntarily or involuntarily; most relapse soon after discharge. Extended follow-up counseling can help prevent relapse. However, it is difficult for hospitals to provide follow-up and smokers rarely leave the hospital with quitting aids (for example, nicotine patches). This study aims to test a practical model in which hospitals work with a state cessation quitline. Hospital staff briefly intervene with smokers at bedside and refer them to the quitline. Depending on assigned condition, smokers may receive nicotine patches at discharge or extended quitline telephone counseling post-discharge. This project establishes a practical model that lends itself to broader dissemination, while testing the effectiveness of the interventions in a rigorous randomized trial.Methods/designThis randomized clinical trial (N = 1,640) tests the effect of two interventions on long-term quit rates of hospitalized smokers in a 2 x 2 factorial design. The interventions are (1) nicotine patches (eight-week, step down program) dispensed at discharge and (2) proactive telephone counseling provided by the state quitline after discharge. Subjects are randomly assigned into: usual care, nicotine patches, telephone counseling, or both patches and counseling. It is hypothesized that patches and counseling have independent effects and their combined effect is greater than either alone. The primary outcome measure is thirty-day abstinence at six months; a secondary outcome is biochemically validated smoking status. Cost-effectiveness analysis is conducted to compare each intervention condition (patch alone, counseling alone, and combined interventions) against the usual care condition. Further, this study examines whether smokers' medical diagnosis is a moderator of treatment effect. Generalized linear (binomial) mixed models will be used to study the effect of treatment on abstinence rates. Clustering is accounted for with hospital-specific random effects.DiscussionIf this model is effective, quitlines across the U.S. could work with interested hospitals to set up similar systems. Hospital accreditation standards related to tobacco cessation performance measures require follow-up after discharge and provide additional incentive for hospitals to work with quitlines. The ubiquity of quitlines, combined with the consistency of quitline counseling delivery as centralized state operations, make this partnership attractive.Trial registrationSmoking cessation in hospitalized smokers NCT01289275. Date of registration February 1, 2011; date of first patient August 3, 2011.
Helping Hospitalized Smokers: A Factorial RCT of Nicotine Patches and Counseling.
Cummins, Sharon E
Gamst, Anthony C
Seymann, Gregory B
Kirby, Carrie A
Tong, Elisa K
Tedeschi, Gary J
Most smokers abstain from smoking during hospitalization but relapse upon discharge. This study tests the effectiveness of two proven treatments (i.e., nicotine patches and telephone counseling) in helping these patients stay quit after discharge from the hospital, and assesses a model of hospital-quitline partnership.This study had a 2×2 factorial design in which participants were stratified by recruitment site and smoking rate and randomly assigned to usual care, nicotine patches only, counseling only, or patches plus counseling. They were evaluated at 2 and 6 months post-randomization.A total of 1,270 hospitalized adult smokers were recruited from August 2011 to November 2013 from five hospitals within three healthcare systems.Participants in the patch condition were provided 8 weeks of nicotine patches at discharge (or were mailed them post-discharge). Quitline staff started proactively calling participants in the counseling condition 3 days post-discharge to provide standard quitline counseling.The primary outcome measure was self-reported 30-day abstinence at 6 months using an intention-to-treat analysis. Data were analyzed from September 2015 to May 2016.The 30-day abstinence rate at 6 months was 22.8% for the nicotine patch condition and 18.3% for the no-patch condition (p=0.051). Nearly all participants (99%) in the patch condition were provided nicotine patches, although 36% were sent post-discharge. The abstinence rates were 20.0% and 21.1% for counseling and no counseling conditions, respectively (p=0.651). Fewer than half of the participants in the counseling condition (47%) received counseling (mean follow-up sessions, 3.6).Provision of nicotine patches proved feasible, although their effectiveness in helping discharged patients stay quit was not significant. Telephone counseling was not effective, in large part because of low rates of engagement. Future interventions will need to be more immediate to be effective.This study is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov NCT01289275.


The first decentralized cryptocurrency, bitcoin, was created in 2009 by pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto. It used SHA-256, a cryptographic hash function, as its proof-of-work scheme. In April 2011, Namecoin was created as an attempt at forming a decentralized DNS, which would make internet censorship very difficult. Soon after, in October 2011, Litecoin was released. It was the first successful cryptocurrency to use scrypt as its hash function instead of SHA-256. Another notable cryptocurrency, Peercoin was the first to use a proof-of-work/proof-of-stake hybrid. IOTA was the first cryptocurrency not based on a blockchain, using the Tangle instead.
As of February 2018[update], the Chinese Government halted trading of virtual currency, banned initial coin offerings and shut down mining. Some Chinese miners have since relocated to Canada. One company is operating data centers for mining operations at Canadian oil and gas field sites, due to low gas prices. In June 2018, Hydro Quebec proposed to the provincial government to allocate 500 MW to crypto companies for mining. According to a February 2018 report from Fortune, Iceland has become a haven for cryptocurrency miners in part because of its cheap electricity. Prices are contained because nearly all of the country's energy comes from renewable sources, prompting more mining companies to consider opening operations in Iceland. The region's energy company says bitcoin mining is becoming so popular that the country will likely use more electricity to mine coins than power homes in 2018. In October 2018 Russia will become home to one of the largest legal mining operations in the world, located in Siberia.
Additions such as Zerocoin have been suggested, which would allow for true anonymity.
In recent years, anonymizing technologies like zero-knowledge proofs and ring signatures have been employed in the cryptocurrencies Zcash and Monero, respectively. Cryptocurrency anonymizing implementations such as Cloakcoin, Dash, and PIVX use built in mixing services, also known as tumblers.
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That's more than people living on Haiti's southern peninsula can say. The death toll—now officially at 336, though likely far higher—is a big part of why the world is paying attention to Haiti right now. It's in the headlines, it's in the ledes. It's the reason news agencies continuously hunt for the highest figures: The higher your death toll, the more fresh, the more ominous your reporting appears, and the more likely it is that TV news stations, newspapers and news websites will choose your story over your competitor's. (This weekend The New York Times wrote about the challenges of calculating a death tolls).
In fact, giving money to disaster relief in Haiti is probably one of the worst ways to spend your money. In most cases, by the time a disaster strikes, it's simply too late to do very much. Billions of dollars flowed into Haiti following its 2010 earthquake, but the number of people pulled alive from the rubble by international medical teams likely measured only in the hundreds. When an earthquake hit Turkey in 1998, 98 percent of the people pulled from the rubble were saved by neighbors, relatives, friends — not internationals.
When disaster strikes, the first 24 or 48 hours are the critical windows in which to save lives. But even then, there's precious little that emergency donations can accomplish. A friend of mine who works for a major aid organization in Haiti messaged me last week that "it's awful trying to get to the south with the bridge down, blocked roads, etc. So sad." She's talking about a bridge on the same road I traveled back in 2010 to cover hurricane Thomas as it struck Haiti's south. Indeed, bridges in Haiti fall frequently when storms hit. Without them, aid workers can't get to the affected areas easily, or at all.
But how many of us have opened our wallets in the past five years to donate to the construction of bridges in Haiti — or roads?
"Aid Agencies Rush to Help Hurricane Matthew Victims in Haiti," says Voice of America.
"Haiti Relief Efforts Step Up as Higher Death Toll Feared," says the Wall Street Journal.
Corporations like Facebook, Apple, Amazon and T-Mobile make the Red Cross their default charity whenever disaster strikes, irrespective of that agency's mixed record of helping Haiti in the past. Often, reporters naively follow their lead.
Having spent two years living and reporting in post-earthquake Haiti, following the money and reporting on failures in international aid, there are few charities that I feel comfortable recommending people donate to. I was saddened last week to see that even some of those were using this disaster as a means to fundraise.
There's no denying that we tend to be more moved by emotional appeals and breaking news than by logic or reason. Perhaps there's an argument to be made that now is the right time for media to spread the message. But that's only true if we direct people to charities that do long-term capacity building work and have evidence that they do it well, rather than just the ones with the big names and the sad pictures.
I was encouraged to see that in its emails this week, the American Jewish World Service avoided the implication that donating money would immediately save lives from the storm. Instead, AJWS explained its long-term road map toward helping local Haitian organizations and institutions build the capacity to prevent such catastrophes in the future. AJWS wrote in an email that while "Most of the first-responder organizations will focus on food, shelter and clean water," it would be focusing its efforts on "Rebuilding of infrastructure for partners who have reported damage" and preventing water-borne diseases from spreading in the coming days in communities that were the hardest hit.
"In an environment in which international aid is controversial, and is seen to only weaken Haiti's efforts to establish autonomy and accountability, AJWS seeks to advocate for all aid organizations to work directly with Haitian national and local organizations – to give flexible support and to promote sustainable rebuilding and prevention work," wrote the charity.
If an international charity can describe the complexity of Haiti's situation — the long-term challenges and the long-term solutions — in a simple email, why can't news outlets do it in their stories?
On Friday a journalist friend of mine based in Kenya who has never been to Haiti was thinking about going there to cover the storm's aftermath. There has to be a better way than chasing the storm.
The Solutions Journalism Network has an excellent toolkit for reporting news in a productive way — not by sending readers fumbling blindly for their wallets, but by identifying an initiative that took a deep look at a chronic problem, devised an evidence-based solution to it, and managed to put it into action.
Yesterday, another journalist colleague of mine who has spent years writing about foreign aid came up with some basic guidelines to follow for giving to Haiti, most of which come down to the simple but essential rule of give cash, not stuff, and don't fly down yourself.
But for journalists I would add another suggestion to the list: don't encourage your audiences to give to relief in the first place. Direct them to science-based charity navigators like GiveWell, which analyzes the research behind different charities to identify where your money is most likely to do the most good. Your readers will soon learn that disaster relief is one of the most inefficient ways to save a life, but that there are other ways in which even a little bit of philanthropy can go a long way.
We can prevent such travesties in Haiti too: Rather than encourage news consumers to throw enormous amounts of money to post-disaster rescue teams that are rarely able to save many lives once the storm has hit, let's give them the tools to direct their philanthropy wisely toward preventing the next one.
Jacob Kushner, UW Journalism '10, spent two years investigating foreign aid in Haiti.


"When I first looked at Florian Liber `s works last year , I was disconcerted .l knew he was a student at the Fine Arts Faculty of Timisoara . While examining his works I could not find anything to relate them to. Naturally , I thought of waiting to see what would follow. What followed -this year's paintings - seemed to be a direct and natural continuation of his first works. Nothing has changed in his vision, which proves that what I saw a year ago was not the fruit of a momentary artistic disposition, but the expression of an inner structure , characteristic to his intimate self . The artist gave shape to this structure , and this shape seemed to have been used unconsciously as if "dictated ".
It made me think of Caravaggio's painting ,the one in which Mattei ,the Evangelist ,sitting in front of a piece of paper ,seems to listen to the words whispered from the left by the angel who leads his hand . I intentionally mentioned Caravaggio`s name .There is a sort of kinship between Florian Liber' s works and those of the great master of the European tenebroso at the beginning of the 17th century , a kinship which can be easily noticed in the technique they use by anyone with some knowledge in the field .But this aspect cannot be considered ad litteram .For the Italian painter ,the chiaroscuro technique as well as the unswerving ,vigorous drawing were the most appropriate means to emphasize the physical and the material side of the world .Thus ,one can say that caravaggio is one of the indisputable masters of the realism of all times .In contrast , in Florian Liber `s paintings ,the drawing.seems togrow blurred until it is not perceived as such anymore , it is dissolved, we might say in darkness and semi-darkness which close in gently upon figures .It is a procedure through which the artist seems to emphasize the spiritual content of his works .
The acquisition of National Museum, Art Museum of Arad, RO, 2009. Selection for European Night of the Museums, UNESCO 2015-2018. "La Pieta" monumental painting by Florian LIBER, Italian Seicento style, 220Hx112Wx 12 cm, oil and golden leaf on canvas, 1999.


Cinder now has a scheduler filter called CapacityFilter which allow users to create volume under capacity limit. But some APIs which don't go through cinder-scheduler will break the destination host's capacity.
Some backends now support the thin provisioning capability. But only Cinder gets and checks this capability in cinder-scheduler's filter: CapacityFilter. It means that some APIs which go to the backend directly without cinder-scheduler doesn't get and check the reserved_percentage and the max_over_subscription_ratio of the backend. Then it may break the backend's capacity. Such as "extend volume", "create volume from snapshot", "copy volume" and so on.
Usually, the capacity is a hard limit for the specified backend when Cinder works with the CapacityFilter (It is one of the default filters in Cinder). It means that every action to this kind of backend should keep its capacity. We should not break the capability of the backend which support the thin provisioning.
Add some common functions to check the backend's capacity at the cinder-volume layer. The patch is a POC to solve volume creation problem.
Create volume requests for a snapshot, volume, or replica will change the backend's capacity, and will therefore cause the volume's status to switch to "error".
The cinder admin isn't required to use the CapacityFilter, since the volume capacity limit doesn't need to be checked at the driver layer.
For the APIs which will change the backend's capacity and not go through cinder-scheduler, we could route them through the scheduler instead of jumping right to a volume-service.
The problem for the extend API is solved by a bug fix recently. In the patch, it passes a "volume" parameter which includes the host name to cinder-scheduler to indicate that the destination host is specified. Then cinder-scheduler will only check the specified host with backend_passes_filters function. If no error raises, it means that the POST action is allowed.
We need to bump the RPC call's version between cinder-api and cinder-scheduler to keep backward compatibility for each related API.
The create actions will always call through the cinder-scheduler, even if the destination host is specified. If the cinder-scheduler can't match the new RPC version, the old behavior is kept.
Instead of sending notifications, we'd better send user messages if the actions fail.
The create requests which will exceed the backend's capacity will make the volume's status to "error".
Add and update the unit test.
Unit tests will be added and updated.